Jane's Story about whooping cough

[PettoPrincess88]

im curious, if she was breastfeeding would her antibodies she developed during her illness w/pertussis had been passed on to baby? so that baby wouldn't have gotten so sick?

[mjr256]

1. The pertussis vaccine doesn't have thimerosal.

2. While this particular case ended happily w/ the infant surviving, you seem to be ignoring the fact that the infant could have just as easily died. But I guess that too would have given the infant eternal immunity from pertussis.

3. As long as the child stays healthy & there's herd immunity, it won't matter much if the vaccine only gives 5-7 years of immunity as it's infants who are most at risk of serious harm from pertussis.

[spidathon]

.. she didnt mention the vaccine resistant pertussis..that thimerisol free vaccine is not the primary vaccine given... the number of vaccinated children getting and dying from pertussis... and at least her kid now has life long immunity to it as opposed to the 5-7 years from the vaccine.. how does she not know about it with 2 kids.. y wasnt she breast feeding?

[Hadra568]

I had this as a baby

[Theroguesunit6]

just courious how long did it take to get stage 1 whooping cough

[imadairyqueen]

The problem is and continues to be misdiagnosis and doctors not listening to a mothers instincts. Doctors think that just because they have invented the miracle cure called vaccines, they don't need test for it.

[thetruthergirls]

It's terrible she had to go through this ordeal. Thank God her baby survived. Did anyone notice however that she said her vaccinated son did get sick as well? So doesn't that mean vaccinated children and adults can still pass the disease on to others? We have 10x more babes dying of pertussis now than in the 70's though the vaccination rate for babies had more than doubled. This shot doesn't seem to work very well. I wonder what the problem is.

[Theroguesunit6]

how long does it take for stage 1 whooping cough to start symptoms usaully

[Tlincali]

@thetruthergirls You have to get the shot every 10 years or so.

[ShotbyShotStories]

Thank you for showing the human side of how life can be without immunizations. All of your posted stories are very powerful.